Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-12-20

ecmlRefuS ID more Imam Sl,OUU,0UU,UU0 q
year, Wills n working people have on
cepoeit In the aavings Institutions OF the
country over 81 ,00Q, 900 900. To-day in
wealth, poser. grandeur and civiliza-
ton, the United States stands first
among the nations OF the world. The
United States, while extending their
power and increasing their wealth as a
nation have developed their resaprcep,
bniit up their industries and given am
ployment to onr people to such an ex-
tent as to make the natien in most
things independents OF foreign produce
ton for the commodities and necessa-
ries which q people require and at
less cost to pay for similar articles be-
fore 1850, when we had comparative free
trade, SO that to-day labor is better paid
and manufactured commodities cheaper
In price to all. people han they were
before the present protective system was
adopted. Those important results have
been accomplished by the vast increase
OF home competition with its concurrent
advantage OF an equal increase II en-
ploymsnt of labor, both skilled and I'M.
skilled, and in the recompense of labor.
1t hes been accompanied also by o
change IN the balance OF trade with
foreign countries, enabling US to retain
at home the gold and silver products OF
our mines and our earnings, instead OF
sending them abroad for the entrench-
ment OF aliens, Consequently in pro-
portion as nj capital increased the rates
of interest were reduced to q degree
never before known, l~essening the
mercantile and manufacturing enter
trtGon - W. khawafrn nn~acJnp - A.
foregoing history Of the republican
party, and that of the country identified
with 1t, make the following declarations:
abandon the policy of home protection,
lection aDd prosperity are founded.
S~econd-The effect of che democratic
policy would be disastrous. by trans-
ferrlng many of our industries to Eng
land, and rohbing our working people
OF their employment and wages for the
benefit of Britn b manufacturers. by ex-
hauBting our accumulated capital in the
pay ment of foreign debts, incurred for
imported merchandise; and by damag.
ing the entire system OF an industrial
and commercial intercourse. We pro-
test against it in the name of all Ameri-
Snh Aoboi II VI III au1cElSAu GuEeTOElHS.
Ihlrd-Wo recognize in the message
OF the head OF the democratic party a
tender to our country of the choice be-
tween supporting the iaborers and in
dustries Of Great Britain and Europe
generally on n hand. and on the other,
the support of the laboring men and
industrial enterprises Of America. We
respectfully decline the former which
hn ronoS, nar Il nrI I'LL ,ku~1 49, -.
people when we elect q president.
Fourth-The principle Of protection
rs not founded upon the interests of any
one section OF or any n class of indi-
yiduals. but upon the interests OF the
entire country. It's supreme object is to
render America independent OF
United States entirely self-sus.
tainlng to keep our money at home and
give employment to our own working
people, to snbatitnte home composition
fos foreign, 90 build up towns and VII
lagos, to encourage agriculture and a
hance the value of farms, to provide
home markets for the farmer, to promote
the opening of rapid and chief communi-
cation between the states and territories,
to open mines and to develop all the
vast ~esource OF onr country 30 richly
blessed of God of all that 10 needed to
make 9 people great, contented and
happy.
Flfth-While the republican party bas.
since the Wal repeatedly cut down taxa
tion and has uniformly, when in
kept the surplus within stated limits,she
democracy haye shown themselves in
competent for either duty, and by pre-
sistently refusing any reduction of taxes
unless compiled with q destructive as
,sault IN American industries, are res
ponsibie for the accumulation of the ex-
listing surplus and all the dangers it in
wolves. We believe shat only the res
toration OF republican supremacy gives
assurance of uniting reduced taxes, a
revised tariff and limited surplus with
the preservation of the policy which
alone v us from becoming the COM
mercial slaves of Europe.
Sixth-The continued refusal OF the
democratic house Of representatives to
admit the territories having . pnpula-
tion OF high character and intelligence
exceeding IN number that of several
states OF the union, old and new, should
arouse the indignation OF all true Ameri-
cams Who believe in home rule and con.
asitutional: rights.
Seyenth-We condemn the hostility
OF the democratic party in the house OF
representatives to all means for the adj
vancement of broad popular education
and denounce its arbitrary conduct
thwarting every effort TO CONSIDER and
measure for this purpose.
Eight-Reviving nc past issues, We
insist as 9 living question and an lndis-
pensable bulwsrk of national security.
upon o free, honest ballot and q fair
count in ell the states OF the union.
Ninth-We charge the democratic
party with failing to provide out OF the
abundant resources Of the nation
for tbs u~pbuilding of . more efficient
navy for the protection OF our defence
less sea coast, for the restoration OF our
commercial marine, SO essential to the
training of American seamen and to the
exclusion Of American trade, and
we urge the necessity of prompt and
energetic measures for those important
objects.
Ienth-We charge the democratic
administration with culpabls weakness
in guarding American individual rights
on the high seas and. in foreign lands,
while the vessels and property of our
fnitizeDs have been seized and sacrificed
in foreign ports, and information oi
what shey were jussly entitled to under
our treaties withheld from them
or made dependent on foreign
Interpretations; and we demand
q more VIGOROUS assertion Of American
| craftsmanship, winch shall restore the
respect once accorded the inst demands